Great superhero games have been pretty rare lately, but last year, Rocksteady Studios’ surprise hit Batman: Arkham Asylyum changed all that. Here was a studio that had taken the Batman license and applied the intelligent design of the Bioshock and Thief series to it. It blew the door open for the possibility of intelligent next-gen superhero games.

It looks like we might have finally got wind of our first true Arkham Asylum successor. Activision has just announced Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, which takes the web crawler through three separate parallel universes… re-imaging him each in vastly different ways. For example? Spider-Man Noir.

For those who aren’t up to speed on the Noir universe, Spider-Man Noir was introduced in 2009 via a four-issue miniseries that reimagined the character as a hero in the Depression era. While he’s still empowered by a spider bite, this time out the spider is mystic as opposed to irradiated. The result is still a broad range of spiderlike powers, which include organic webshooters in Spidey’s forearms that he uses to fight crime. The costume he winds up using is drastically different from the traditional outfit, reflecting the era and also a hefty dose of creative license.

That’s enough, right there, to have me twisting in my seat: Spider-Man, re-imagined as a pulp vigilante. And since all of the Spider-Man incarnations are from official Marvel comics, it looks like we can expect Spider-Man 2099 in here to enliven the mix!